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Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, Saturday said the state will not resuscitate any grazing route in order to check herders/farmers clashes. Diri who was reacting to the recent directive by President Muhammadu Buhari for states to revive cattle grazing routes across the country, explained that  Bayelsa will not consider such idea after prohibiting open grazing. Speaking during a broadcast monitored...

Residents of states in the South-East on Saturday shunned the June 12 rally organized by youths to protest bad governance and worsening insecurity in the country. This was in contrast to the situation in the South-West where security operatives struggled to maintain law and order in cities across the region. Unlike the sit-at-home order given by the proscribed Indigenous People of...

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state yesterday said the state is currently facing the worst humanitarian crisis in recent time with over 1.5 million Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, arising from ceaseless attacks on communities in the state by armed herdsmen. He lamented that the government had been overwhelmed and unable to cope with the situation and urgently needed help to...

Property owners in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, have continued to groan over recent demolition of “illegal structures” across the town by the state government. They are accusing the government of being selective in its approach for the exercise. Mostly affected in the ongoing exercise are traders across various markets. The traders’ union in the state claimed that over 10,000...

Israel Adesanya has beaten Marvin Vettori via unanimous decision (50-45, 50-45, 50-45) in the main event of UFC 263 on Saturday night at a sold-out Gila River Arena. Vettori was one of his toughest middleweight tests but he removed all prior doubt to take the night in the entertaining rematch. With the victory, Adesanya successfully defended his UFC middleweight title. He evaded...

With barely two weeks to the governorship primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Anambra state; a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has nullified the South-East Zonal Congresses which held on March 6th, 2021. The plaintiff, Samuel Anyakorah had approached Justice Adegbola Adeniyi of the High Court of Justice, Abuja Division, seeking among others, the nullification of the...

The Cross River State security outfit, Operation Akpakwu, a combination of police, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence and DSS conducted what they described as “Operation show of force” throughout much of Saturday morning. They paraded most black spots of Calabar South LGA and those of Calabar Municipality with long convoys of armed personnel. They also blocked many areas of Calabar South,...

President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed that he is preparing the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC to remain in power for as long as possible. In an interview on Friday night on NTA monitored by Vanguard, the president revealed that the survival of the party is largely dependent on his administration. "We are preferring APC to remain in power for as long...

The Ondo State Capital, Akure on Saturday was a beehive of activities as youths in their hundreds trooped out to protest the Presidency’s alleged support for open grazing. Ripples Nigeria gathered that this was despite an appeal by the Deji of Akure, Oba Aladetoyinbo Aladelusi, to youths in the capital city not to embark on the protest. The youths, who conducted...

The Arewa Youth Alliance, AYA, a coalition of socio-political groups on Friday has warned the organisers of the June 12 protests to steer clear of the northern part of the country. The coalition reiterated its resolve to protect the north and northerners from any external aggression by anti-northern forces in any guise. A statement by the National President of AYA Mohammed...